A Mississippi lawmaker is under fire on social media for a comment he made in an email he recently sent to a non-native resident of the state.

Becky Guidry of Gulfport emailed Rep. Karl Oliver, a Republican from Winona, about the Taxpayer Raise Act and asked him to vote it down. Oliver emailed a response, in which he said, in part, “I see you are not a native to the great state of Mississippi nor do you and I have similar views on government responsibility.”

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Oliver went on to say that his political views were different from Guidry’s and said that he could care less about her opinion.

“She’s not my constituent. I don’t represent her. We share dissimilar views,” Guidry told 16 WAPT News over the phone. “I thank her for sharing hers with me, but personally, I don’t care about her views. She has a right to her views, but she shouldn’t send me emails telling me that mine are irresponsible. If somebody tells you that you’re irresponsible, I take notice of that. I don’t believe my views are irresponsible and I shared with her that the majority of Mississippi feels the same way. She’s from Illinois. I simply suggested that the majority of people in Illinois feel the way she does.”

Guidry told The Clarion-Ledger that after she read Oliver’s email, she felt like, since she was not a Mississippi native, her opinion didn’t count. She said she and her husband are involved in the community and their son attends public school in Gulfport.